I have a 3.1 TB Fusion Drive on an iMac running Sierra, and I wanted to create a new partition (of 1.5 TB). I booted into Recovery Mode and used Disk Utility to create a new volume. However, Disk Utility froze on Resizing Core Storage Physical Volume Structures. I quit Disk Utility and rebooted back into Recovery Mode. However, Disk Utility now shows my original partition with 1.5 TB less storage (the size of the new partition). However, using diskutil list doesn't show the new partition. How can I get either the storage back or have the new partition appear.
Here the result of diskutil list:
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *121.3 GB disk0
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_CoreStorage Macintosh HD 121.0 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Boot OS X 134.2 MB disk0s3
/dev/disk1 (internal, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *3.0 TB disk1
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk1s1
2: Apple_CoreStorage Macintosh HD 2.7 TB disk1s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.1 MB disk1s3
4: Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP 250.0 GB disk1s4
/dev/disk2 (internal, virtual):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: Macintosh HD +1.5 TB disk2
Logical Volume on disk0s2, disk1s2
03BC8817-F05E-4FC3-9A5C-50130CDAB3AB
Unencrypted Fusion Drive
Here is the result of diskutil cs list:
CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)
|
+-- Logical Volume Group DFD31523-36BE-47AB-A666-54B64038E46B
=========================================================
Name: Macintosh HD
Status: Online
Size: 2870717931520 B (2.9 TB)
Free Space: 1315567517696 B (1.3 TB)
|
+-< Physical Volume FEC1934B-53F8-49A1-ABE6-5155689D9A68
| ----------------------------------------------------
| Index: 0
| Disk: disk0s2
| Status: Online
| Size: 120988852224 B (121.0 GB)
|
+-< Physical Volume 4F985EA2-E22B-451F-BEB3-E5EF76D14A59
| ----------------------------------------------------
| Index: 1
| Disk: disk1s2
| Status: Online
| Size: 2749729079296 B (2.7 TB)
|
+-> Logical Volume Family 27D90160-503D-48B7-B434-798CEE738260
----------------------------------------------------------
Encryption Type: None
|
+-> Logical Volume 03BC8817-F05E-4FC3-9A5C-50130CDAB3AB
---------------------------------------------------
Disk: disk2
Status: Online
Size (Total): 1548963545088 B (1.5 TB)
Revertible: No
LV Name: Macintosh HD
Volume Name: Macintosh HD
Content Hint: Apple_HFS
LVG Type: Fusion, Sparse
Here is the result of the sudo gpt -r show disk1 :
start size index contents
0 1 PMBR
1 1 Pri GPT header
2 32 Pri GPT table
34 6
40 409600 1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
409640 5370564608 2 GPT part - 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
5370974248 1269760 3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
5372244008 4056
5372248064 488284160 4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
5860532224 911
5860533135 32 Sec GPT table
5860533167 1 Sec GPT header
I do use the bootcamp partition to run Windows. It predates my problems.
Best Answer
You can resize CoreStorage Logical Volumes with the command:
with lvUUID: UUID of the Logical Volume and size: a size in b, k, m ,g or t. Depending on your system version a magic size of 0g is also possible. It will expand the Logical Volume to the whole available size of the LVG.
In your case that's either
or
If you get an error message like "... partition is too small ...", choose a slightly smaller size like 2864g or 2863g.
After a failed add volume/resize command (in your case Disk Utility froze) the innards of the Logical Volume Group are often corrupted and it has to be rebuilt from scratch which requires a (Time Machine) backup.
Adding a 2nd HFS+ volume may render your Windows partition non-bootable.